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Recovered Hoard · El Carambolo, Camas, near Seville, Spain

The Carambolo Treasure

The Carambolo Treasure: still unexplained.

◆ Evidence tier: Tradition~7th c. BC · found 1958 – present◎ Recently discovered — still growing

The Story

What is claimed · what is sourced · what is still disputed

Workers at a pigeon-shooting club on a hill above Seville dug up a ceramic pot in 1958 packed with twenty-one pieces of elaborate goldwork, Spanish gold worked in the Phoenician manner, twenty-seven centuries old. It belonged to Tartessos, the rich, half-legendary kingdom of the Spanish south that some have tried to read as Plato's Atlantis.

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

The lure: 21 pieces of Tartessian gold, the wealth that fed the Atlantis myth

How it was found: Workers expanding a pigeon-shooting club on a hill outside Seville in 1958 dug up a ceramic pot holding 21 pieces of worked Tartessian gold.

Evidence & Corroboration

Distinct evidence classes that independently agree — never a single score

Historical tradition
Newspaper mention
Scholarly support
Archival evidence
Official map/chart
Corroborated
Verified fact

? Open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

Historic Maps

Period cartography · Library of Congress & DPLA via IIIF · deep-zoom

◇ No period cartography on file yet. The IIIF map adapters (Library of Congress, David Rumsey, DPLA) fill this automatically when they find charts of this place.

Period Newspaper Coverage

Dated OCR mentions · Chronicling America / loc.gov — a mention proves circulation, nothing more

◇ No dated newspaper coverage yet. Chronicling America runs against this legend automatically and lands dated clips here.

Archival Documents

Manuscripts, government records, company filings · NARA · IIIF · registries

◇ No archival documents on file yet. NARA and national-archive adapters attach primary records here as they surface.

Timeline

Every event source-backed · unsourced events are dropped, never invented

◇ No dated, source-backed events yet. Timeline entries are built only from evidence with a confirmed date -- nothing is estimated or invented.

Sources & Citations

Typed, first-class citations with retrieval provenance

◇ No typed citations compiled yet -- check Historic Maps, Newspapers, and Archives above as they fill in.

From the archive

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